U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Mexico City on Sunday ahead of a highly anticipated North American leaders’ summit that will bring him together on Tuesday with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Justin Trudeau, and will address illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and climate change issues.

The American president spoke late Saturday on Twitter about his trip, noting "the need to expand legal pathways for organized migration," and said: "We can do all that while reducing illegal immigration at the same time."

It is worth noting that up to 30,000 migrants will be allowed to enter the United States monthly from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, but they must arrive by air so as not to increase the workload of border patrol on the ground.

Conversely, those who cross the border illegally will be returned more easily according to the White House.

Also, Biden’s visit to Mexico is expected to be overshadowed by the tragedy of the synthetic fentanyl drug, which is 50 times stronger than heroin and is overseen in production by Mexican cartels using chemical components imported from China, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

It is known that two-thirds of the 108,000 deaths from overdoses in the United States in 2021 were due to synthetic opioids. As for the amount of fentanyl seized in 2022 alone, it exceeds the quantity necessary to kill the entire American population, according to the agency.

Climate change will also be on the agenda for the talks, especially since the countries participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) announced in Egypt renewable energy projects involving investments worth $48 billion, during which Mexico pledged to improve its greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030.

The summit is scheduled to discuss during its talks the exploitation of lithium, transferring electric car assembly plants, building six solar power plants from the Mexican side, and exploring ways to collaborate in the field of clean energy.